This was the first Food & Drink Innovation Network seminar I have chaired since Fresh Montgomery took over, following the death of the much-missed Jeffrey Hyman last year. Soraya and her team delivered a well-organised, smoothly run day that very much took the best of what Jeffrey had achieved and built on this, not least […]
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Is Wowsome Awesome?
This week saw the new Nestle Milkybar Wowsomes bars land in Tesco. By Tuesday I had visited five shops without success when I found them in the Tesco Express opposite Gloucester Road tube station. Wowsomes is (are?) the first chocolate bar in the world to use Nestle’s innovative sugar reduction technique. According to the press […]
Beyond the boy scout’s sleeve: a personal review of ethical certification
Executive summary This paper reviews the history of third-party ethical certification of food and drink, concentrating mainly on organic and Fairtrade. The strengths and weakness of the approaches taken to date are reviewed. The author includes his personal experience of such schemes gained over the last thirty years. From this he concludes that third-party certification […]
Plant Power! Seizing opportunities from the vegan and plant-based sector | 24th April 2018
Once again I am Chairing an FDIN one-day seminar and this one is the definition of a hot topic – Vegan and Plant-Based Food and Drink. You can see the full list of speakers here It promises to be fascinating day with original research, big brands (Quorn, Pizza Express), challenger brands (Freaks Of Nature), […]
The Wright Stuff…in pictures!
March 2018 This is a miscellany of images taken from my working life, in chronological order from my first job at the Leatherhead Food RA in 1980 to sharing a platform with Prince Charles at Lancaster House in 2002.